Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.